"We Never Retreat" : Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812-1822 / Ed Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Ed, 1969- author.

Series:

Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 40.

Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; number forty

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition, 1812-1813.

Filibusters--Texas.

Filibusters.

Spain--Foreign relations--United States.

Spain.

United States--Foreign relations--Spain.

United States.

Texas--History--1810-1821.

Texas.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The term "filibuster" often brings to mind a senator giving a long-winded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century-invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and

Contents:

Philip Nolan: harbinger of the Texas filibustering era

The Magee-Gutierrez Expedition: from conception to the taking of La Bahia

The Magee-Gutierrez Expedition, part II

From John H. Robinson to James Long

The 1819 Texas filibuster of James Long

James Long and the end of the Texas filibustering era.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-261-0

OCLC:

903964445